Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After quizzing the Browne servants, last week Sleuth Scaffa bee-lined for Manhattan's Hotel Montclair. There he uncovered the thief and gave Mrs. Browne a nasty shock. The culprit was one of her best friends, Mrs. Whitney Endt, 28, wife of an insurance broker, future heiress to a comfortable fortune, often a welcome guest in the Browne home. Mrs. Endt, who recently lost a child and suffered injuries in a motor wreck, weepingly promised to redeem the $2,000 worth of jewels from pawnbrokers. Police opinion: kleptomania...
...issues of the revolution by marrying one of his servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming a son of honest toil instead of a Paris taxi driver, it does so in an obvious and sensational way, using the stock episodes of crown jewels, an escape to Constantinople, a U. S. heiress and the officer's slinky Moscow mistress (Lilyan Tashman). As sometimes happens in such cases, there are moments in Scarlet Dawn so well imagined that they make the rest of it seem even more shoddy than it is; the one, for instance, in which Nikiti's wife polishes...
...woodsman's outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings. He married Manhattan Heiress Amy Van Tine in 1895, was knighted in 1902, raised...
Page Pygmalion (Carl Henkle, author; Alan Merrill, producer) is an abortive farce about a young sculptor who is in love with his model but wants to marry an heiress. The sculptor's cousin John from Oklahoma City (Robert Emmett Keane) has the bright idea of persuading the model to mount a pedestal and simulate the statue for which she posed. Having heard many things, the model astonishes a large gathering by coming down off her pedestal and announcing that the heiress is. the illegitimate daughter of a janitor. The sculptor gives up sculpting, marries the model, returns to Oklahoma...
Married. Marjorie Montgomery Ward, daughter and heiress of the late founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Robert R. Baker, onetime Chicago coal merchant; in Philadelphia...